:Sarah Prescott
{{Short description|British writer and academic}}
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| birth_date = 1970s
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| education = University of York
University of Exeter
| thesis_title = Feminist Literary History and British Women Novelists of the 1720s
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361324
| thesis_year = 1997
| discipline = English literature
| sub_discipline = Welsh literature in English historian
| workplaces = Aberystwyth University
| main_interests = Welsh writing in English, women's poetry, Welsh women writers
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Sarah Helen Prescott FLSW is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University and a non-fiction writer, specializing in the history of Welsh literature in English.{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/staff/scp/|title=Professor Sarah Prescott|publisher=Aberystwyth University|access-date=17 April 2016 |language=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/133455/desc/prescott-sarah/|title=Prescott, Sarah|publisher=Literature Wales|access-date=17 April 2016 |language=}} She is also the director of the university's Institute of Literature, Languages and Creative Arts (ILLCA).{{cite web|url=https://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/membership-information|title=Membership Information: Aberystwyth University Representatives|publisher=Aberystwyth Arts Centre|access-date=18 April 2016 |language=}}
Biography
After earning a B.A. at the University of York, Prescott continued her studies at the University of Exeter where she received a PhD in 1997 with a thesis titled Feminist Literary History and British Women Novelists of the 1720s.{{cite web|url=http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/includes/documents/staff_cvs/spencer.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae: Professor Jane Spencer|publisher=University of Exeter|access-date=17 April 2016 |language=}} Since the mid-1990s she has been an educator at Aberystwyth University where she has also conducted research into women's poetry, Welsh writing in English, and women's writing in Wales. In addition to two books on 18th-century female writers, she has contributed to journals including Modern Philology, Huntington Library Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Notes and Queries. She serves on the editorial board of Literature Compass and is a member of the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies covering work in the English Departments of Aberystwyth and the University of Wales, Bangor. She has also collaborated with Professor Jane Aaron of the University of Glamorgan on the third volume of the Oxford Literary History of Wales which covers "Welsh Writing in English, 1536–1914".{{cite web|url=http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781409445104_sample_949927.pdf|title=Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism|publisher=Ashgate|access-date=18 April 2016 |language=}}
Prescott is also Director of Aberystwyth University's Institute of Literature, Languages and the Creative Arts (ILLCA) which comprises the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. In collaboration with Aberystwyth University's Welsh and Celtic Studies Department, the University of Edinburgh and the National University of Ireland, Galway, since February 2013 she has been involved in a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on "Women’s Poetry 1400-1800 from Ireland, Scotland and Wales in Irish, English, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh".{{cite web|url=http://womenspoetry.aber.ac.uk/en/|title=Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales|publisher=Aberystwyth University|access-date=18 April 2016 |language=}}
Prescott was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2016.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Sarah Prescott |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/sarah-prescott/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}
Selected works
- {{cite thesis|last=Prescott|first=Sarah Helen|title=Feminist literary history and British women novelists of the 1720s|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361324|year=1997|publisher=University of Exeter|type=Ph.D }}
- {{cite book|last=Prescott|first=Sarah|title=Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9h6QgAACAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-4039-0323-5}}
- {{cite book|last=Prescott|first=Sarah|title=Eighteenth-century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4wfAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2053-2}}
Awards
In 2013, Prescott was awarded the M. Wynn Thomas Prize for her essay "Archipelagic Coterie Space: Katherine Philips and Welsh Women’s Writing".{{cite web|url=http://www.awwe.org/past-winners-and-judges.html|title=Past Winners & Judges|publisher=The Association for Welsh Writing in English|access-date=18 April 2016 |language=}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/staff/scp/ Saraprescott's page at Aberystwyth University]
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Category:20th-century British educators
Category:20th-century British women educators
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Category:21st-century British writers
Category:21st-century British women writers
Category:21st-century British women educators
Category:Academics of Aberystwyth University
Category:Alumni of the University of Exeter
Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:British literary scholars
Category:British women academics